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From: Mills@udel.edu
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Subject: Re:  DUT1 for 1 Jan 91?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 04:23:45 GMT
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Bob,

Whattaya mean "official?" I copied the verbatim text of the USNO
notice to this group upon receipt. I don't think you can answer
the question until you know the DUT1 immediately preceeding the
leap, and that depends on the schedule of the cocktail parties
in Paris on New Year Eve. 

The above scatology is not my invention, but I refuse to disclose
the source.

A wee bird has whispered in my ear that Spectracom may be ready
for testing a new receiver in February. I chirped back that it
is too bad this schedule could not be moved up so that the leap
might even be seen to have been lept, since the new receiver allegedly
includes provision for that obscurity.

Dave